Industrial supplier Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, with sales up 3.4% year on year to $1.96 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.52 per share was in line with analysts’ consensus estimates.
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Fastenal's dividend distribution and distribution growth are safe and reliable for 2025 and 2026. The company is working to mitigate tariffs and executing well.
Shares of industrial supplier Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) jumped 7% in the afternoon session after the company reported strong first quarter 2025 results which blew past analysts' sales volume expectations. Sales, EBITDA, and EPS were also in line with expectations, which showed the company was executing as expected. Sales growth continued to improve despite broader business activity remaining soft, helped by a bigger base of customers spending more each month. Overall, we think this was a decent quarter.
Wall Street ended the week on a strong note, with major indices posting their best weekly performance in years, as traders appeared confident that the escalation in the U.S.-China trade war — which led to triple-digit tariff increases on both sides — would be resolved in the near term.
Industrial supplier Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, with sales up 3.4% year on year to $1.96 billion. Its GAAP profit of $0.52 per share was in line with analysts’ consensus estimates.
